The “Karen” phenomenon is horribly misogynistic as we all know. I’ve come to realize that a part of this is the idea that it’s wrong to complain to management even if you have a legitimate and serious reason for doing so, like “oh the restaurant claimed my food was free of an allergen but it really wasn’t.”
I saw a post on Reddit where someone had a serious gripe about a restaurant and the top comment said that the OP should call the restaurant and ask to speak to the manager. This comment only had a net upvote of one while the comments replying to it had a lot more upvotes. The whole post had hundreds of replies and my default it’s to sort by most popular or whatever. So, it was clear that many people think that complaining to management is wrong for any reason.
We all know that Reddit skews young, so my worry is that these kids really do think it’s bad to complain to the management even for serious reasons.
Businesses SURVIVE based on the feedback they get. Yes they can read Yelp reviews or whatever, but let’s be real, most of them won’t help a restaurant improve as there’s no actual discussion happening.
It’s just another way that misogyny has wider implications for the rest of society, but men don’t give a shit because their main goal in life is to control women at any cost.